Chad Dawson might have underestimated Adonis Stevenson before they met in June, but there was no doubting the southpaw slugger when he stepped up to light heavyweight and crumpled Dawson with one devastating punch in the 2013 ESPN knockout of the year.

My late friend Bert Sugar would frequently opine, when asked about the dire state of the contemporary American heavyweight boxing scene, that "the best heavyweight in America today is Ray Lewis." He was not commenting specifically on the pugilistic a...

Time and again, the fight appeared close to happening. Time and again, it fell apart. As heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko, challenger David Haye and the powers that be wrangled to get the fighters together in the ring, there were disputes ove...

It was not, to put it mildly, expected to be much of a contest. Kevin McBride could fight. He fought well enough as an amateur to make it to the Olympics in 1992, at 18 the youngest super heavyweight to do so. But his skills weren't exactly sil...

LAS VEGAS -- On Sept. 15, 1978, after Muhammad Ali had defeated Leon Spinks at the New Orleans Superdome, Don King clambered into the ring to embrace the man who had just won the heavyweight championship for a record third time. There was only one p...

Most observers look at heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko's April 30 defense against England's Dereck Chisora as little more than a formality. Klitschko's trainer, Emanuel Steward, insists he isn't one of them. "When this fi...

Thursday, 11 a.m. ET -- Business men There's no doubting Oscar De La Hoya's drawing power. He has been far and away the most financially successful non-heavyweight fighter of all time. He has fought 18 times on pay-per-view bouts, which have generat...

Saturday, 8:55 p.m. ET -- An item I missed Here's a story I missed from earlier in the week, unconnected to tonight's action, but worth a mention. Polly Lauder Tunney, widow of former heavyweight great Gene Tunney, died at home in Connecticut a we...

Wednesday, 3:30 p.m. ET -- Mini Byrd Just saw a guy who looked like Chris Byrd's skinny little brother. Byrd, a former heavyweight titlist, is now planning to campaign in the light heavyweight division, and it's quite a shock to see how much smalle...